Re: How can I include a subject header when sending email like mail <email addy> < <filename>

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 12:56:45PM +0900, Dmytro Kovalov wrote:
> On Fri, 2001 Jun 22 OZAWA -Crouton- Sakuro wrote:
> 
> -> 
> -> 'man mail' says:
> ->      mail [-iInv] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b bcc-addr] to-addr...
> ->                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Not on every platform "mail" client allows '-s' syntax. I.e. on Solaris 
> you'd need to use "mailx  -s subject" .

On those platforms, you probably want to avoid using /bin/mail altogether
unless you really need the ancient, user-unfriendly behavior--AFAIK, it's
only there for backward compatibility.

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Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/